Russian Air Traffic Controllers Order Pizza For US Counterparts In Show Of Shutdown Support

In a small display of humanity in the middle of tense Russian-American relations, Russian air traffic controllers in the Russian Far East ordered pizza for their Alaskan counterparts in a show of support during the government shutdown. Reports are the American controllers were ‘pleasantly surprised’ by the gesture.

Last weekend, an unofficial air traffic controllers’ group on Facebook reported that a group of Russian controllers repeated the gesture by ordering pizzas for their colleagues in Anchorage, some 3,000 kilometers away.

“ATC [Air traffic controllers] from Magadan ACC (Russia) ordered pizza for their colleagues in Anchorage Center as a sign of solidarity and support,” the ATC Memes group said in a post accompanying an image of the pizza, reported The Moscow Times.

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